Tourism key to Delaware's identity

6:44 PM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Linda Parkowski

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VISITOR CENTER Linda Parkowski

Take a look around you. Over there, at the museum down the street or at the mall around the corner, parking lots are packed each weekend. On the roads and in our towns, cars with out-of-state plates scurry along with the rest of us to their daily Delaware destinations.

Tourism is everywhere we can see, when we stop to notice, and is a crucial aspect of our well-being and a critical facet of our identity as a state. That reality suddenly comes into sharper focus with a look at the numbers:

? In Delaware, tourism's contribution to the GDP in fiscal year 2012 was $2.2 billion, according to research done ...